EETAC professor, Jordi Martorell Pena, distinguished by the 2025 Academy of Excellence program

A total of 50 professors from the Catalan university system have been selected in the new call for Academy of Excellence grants (formerly, ICREA Academia), 13 of whom are research staff at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC). With an endowment of 200,000 euros for each project, the program will allow them to intensify their research over five years.

Among those selected is Jordi Martorell Pena, researcher at the Department of Physics and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), and professor at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC). At a time when different types of photovoltaic technologies are already nearing their theoretical efficiency limit, Jordi Martorell's project proposes a new way to overcome these limitations. The idea is to reduce Boltzmann losses in solar cells by effectively limiting photon emission. To achieve this, disordered three-dimensional nanophotonic structures, designed using neural networks, will be used.

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